Milestones

Milestones covers awards, honors and major publications by faculty and staff. Send your items to Wisconsin Week, 19 Bascom Hall, or e-mail: wisweek@news.wisc.edu

Appointed
The following named professorships have been appointed: Nicholas L. Abbott, chemical engineering, John T. and Magdalen L. Sobota Chair; David Bordwell, communication arts, Hilldale Professor; Richard R. Burgess, oncology, James D. Watson Professor of Oncology; William W. Busse, medicine, Charles E. Reed Professor of Medicine; Claudia Card, philosophy, Emma Goldman Professor of Philosophy; Laurie Beth Clark, art, Emily Mead Baldwin Bell-Bascom Professor in the Creative Arts; Christopher L. Coe, psychology, W.B. Cannon Professor of BioPsychology; F. Fleming Crim, chemistry, Hilldale Professor; David J. DeWitt, computer sciences, John P. Morgridge Chair of Computer Sciences; Pamela S. Douglas, medicine, Dr. Herman and Ailene Tuchman Chair in Clinical Cardiology; Brian G. Fox, biochemistry, Marvin J. Johnson Professor in Fermentation Biochemistry; Judith Kimble, biochemistry and medical genetics, Vilas Professor; Sanford A. Klein, mechanical engineering, William A. and Irene Ouweneel-Bascom Professor; Stephen E. Lucas, communication arts, Evjue-Bascom Professor in the Humanities; Regina M. Murphy, chemical engineering, Harvey D. Spangler Chair; Alexander Nagel, mathematics, Lipman Bers Professor of Mathematics; Thomas C. Osborn, agronomy, William A. Rothermel-Bascom Professor in Agronomy; John H. Perepezko, materials science and engineering, IBM-Bascom Professor; Jane Piliavin, sociology, Conway-Bascom Professor of Sociology; Bassam Z. Shakhashiri, chemistry, William T. Evjue Distinguished Chair for the Wisconsin Idea; Franklin Wilson, sociology, Sewell-Bascom Professor of Sociology; and John D. Wright, chemistry, Andreas Christopher Albrecht Professor of Chemistry.

Honored
Lennart Backstrom, Department of Medical Sciences, School of Veterinary Medicine, has been awarded a fellowship in the Royal Swedish Academy of Agriculture.

John Lind and Stewart Ballweg, UW–Madison police officers, were recognized by the American Heart Association for using automatic external defibrillators to help save the lives of two area residents.

Louise S. Robbins, associate professor and director of the School of Library and Information Studies is a finalist in the nonfiction category in the Oklahoma Book Awards of the Oklahoma Center for the Book for “The Dismissal of Miss Ruth Brown.”

Alison Patricelli, Department of Surgical Sciences, School of Veterinary Medicine, received the Veterinary Orthopedic Society’s Mark S. Bloomberg Memorial Resident Research Award.

UW Hospital and Clinics has been named a 100 Top Stroke Hospital by an independent national assessment organization, HCIA-Sachs, for excellence in the provision of stroke care to patients. The HCIA-Sachs study is based on objective, quantitative data that are consistent across the United States.

The School of Business entrepreneurship program has been ranked 18th in the nation by Success magazine. The publication produces an annual list of “Best Entrepreneurial Business Schools.” More than 250 entrepreneurship programs are offered nationwide.

Published
James A. LaGro, Jr., associate professor of urban and regional planning, is the author of a new textbook entitled “Site Analysis: Linking Program and Concept in Land Planning and Design,” (2001, John Wiley & Sons).